Withersin’s Damned Interview with:
Adam Armstrong
A barely literate hillbilly and
college drop out, I started to write because I was stricken with a horrible
case of insomnia. I wrote down what I was thinking about for something to do. A
few months later I got a foolish notion to try and publish these writings and
have never stopped.
List published works/accomplishments:
I have a couple of short
stories published: one titled “Posthumous,” for a little magazine called LostSouls and one titled “Damn Job,” for yet another little
magazine called Tales From The Moonlit Path. Also Withersin has a bunch of reviews that I
have written.
List website: www.myspace.com/_invictus_maneo_
How can we contact you? adam-armstrong@hotmail.com
In your own words, define
Withersin.
A life raft floating in a sea of mediocrity.
If you were a sideshow act,
what would you be?
Random useless fact shouter.
What is your greatest
non-literary influence?
The
paintings of Francis Bacon
Describe your most
irrational fear.
I’ve
always been plagued by the fear of a cold dead hand grabbing my ankle when I
try to get out of bed. Don’t know why, but it has stuck with me since I was a
child.
How about your
most guilty pleasure?
Stupid
action movies like The Transporter.
Name the most disturbing
nursery rhyme/fairy tale you can recall.
Little
Red Riding Hood, wouldn’t she and her grandmother be partially digested coming
out of the wolf’s stomach.
Do you eat meat?
As much as I can stuff in my mouth.
What were the skies like
when you were young?
Blue and inviting during the day and crowded with stars at
night.
Name your favorite garden
tool.
A hoe.
Name your least favorite
color, first job and worst job.
Mauve;
Hardee’s slinging burgers; the job I have now is
terrible.
Favorite: Author,
Movie, Music Group, Song, and Quote.
Author:
Jonathan Carroll, Movie: Romeo Is Bleeding, Music Group: Rollins Band, Song: On
My Way To The Cage, Quote: Hope is the last thing a
person does before they are defeated.
If you were a loaf of bread
what kind would you be?
Moldy yet interesting.
Weirdest news you have read
in your local newspaper:
Anything
about the
Why horror?
Horror
and its sister speculative branches gives us the widest canvas to work in not
to mention allows for easy social commentary.
Here's a photo. (seen on Interview main
page)
“INEDIBLE NOT INTENDED FOR HUMAN FOOD”
You have 112 words. Go.
I had
eaten a third of the tanker before I made it to the sign. I spit out slivers of
metal and broken teeth and spread my split lips in a smile. Down in the bowels
a violent revolution began. Swirling and jetting up, metal shards ripped apart
my insides. Roses of blood blossomed in my throat before being born onto the
tanker and the road. Fingers were digging into the sand beside the road as
little bits and pieces flowed out in pastel colors, like rotten lasagna. I
tried to take my creation into my hands, to hold it just once, but the blackness
had bloomed and life faded out forever.
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